12 Halloween Picture Books for Children

Here are some of the Halloween picture books we read together as part of our Halloween preparations and celebrations this year.


Count Dracula by Victor G Ambrus


Darkness Slipped In by Ella Burfoot


Funnybones by Janet & Allan Ahlberg


Heggerty Haggerty and the Hallowe'en Ghosts by Elizabeth Lindsay with illustrations by Peter Rush


Monsters by Colin & Jacqui Hawkins


One Witch by Laura Leuck with illustrations by S. D. Schindler


Scruffy Scroggles and the monster party by Ann Rocard with illustrations by F. Ruyer
(The character Scruffy Scroggles created by Marino Degano)


The Berenstain Bears and The Spooky Old Tree by Stan and Jan Berenstain


Who's Afraid Of The Ghost Train by Frank Rodgers


Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson with illustrations by Axel Scheffler


A Scary Story Night by Rob Lewis


The Hairy Toe (A Traditional American Tale) with illustrations by Daniel Postgate



Sunnyboy was also curious to see a photograph of one of my Halloween costumes as a child. I'm on the right wearing the skeleton costume.



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Jubilee things

I had no plans to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee, and still don't, but with all the jubilee talk at the moment I thought it would be nice to show Sunnyboy photographs of me at the silver jubilee in 1977.


Me (left) and my sister


My sister, my dad and me (right)

Sunnyboy and I decided to mark our own jubilee moment in our family history by making a red, white and blue window display,









and we've seen a lot more red, white and blue in the last few days!



We were fortunate to meet the gentleman who lives here when he arrived home while we were taking photographs of his house. He told us it had taken a month to decorate and he has more balloons to go up on Tuesday. We were very impressed with his window display.



Sunnyboy has also learnt the national anthem, had a jubilee gingerbread man from Tesco,



and I made him a jubilee t-shirt. I did get the flag a little wrong but Sunnyboy was still pleased with it and said he'd also like a bonnet like the one I had when I was a little girl.



We haven't made a bonnet yet but we did make a cardboard tube streamer like my silver jubilee one. Well not quite the same, as we added some stars to the tube and then realised it looked like it was based on the US flag. All in all we were very happy with our jubilee things!



Abolish the monarchy, but enjoy the party!

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